Yes, You Can
The biggest difference between people, is how independent and free they are -- even beyond their actual physical limitations and abilities -- is what they think they can do, or cannot.For most people...
View ArticleVote Thoughtfully, Intelligently and Responsibly
We, as a society and culture, need to reward success rather than failure -- and then saying there is no difference between the two.Eventually, people who are successful don't need any rewards -- while...
View ArticleMust One Deteriorate (Age)?
Is deterioration an inevitable process of aging (time), or could it be merely the accumulation of bad choices that have caught up with one?Conversely, are there good choices one makes, that improves...
View Article50 Repetitions (The Key to Bodybuilding After 50)
Even former champion bodybuilders start to panic when around 50, the slow deterioration beginning at 30 -- begins an even sharper descent, and by 60, they regard their condition as irreversibly...
View ArticleThe Remaking of Society
Since they're not making a difference anyway, they should disband the schools, and let people who want to teach and have something to teach, put those classrooms to good use.Real teachers teach because...
View ArticleEasy Does It
What's with all the experts making everything seem as difficult as possible? -- so that we need their expert guidance to make it through the tortuous maze of doing anything?That reliance on the...
View ArticleThe Hardest Thing to See is the Obvious
As one who has spent over fifty years instructing people on exercise, very few are willing to accept the obvious -- that the primary function of their own muscles, is to shape the condition they are in...
View Article"Victims" in Their Own Lives
Lots of overweight people are obviously out of shape -- but so are a lot of underweight people.Most of the world's greatest athletes, by the BMI, are overweight and many even obese -- by that measure,...
View ArticleSurvival of the Fitness
Most people are familiar with the term, "survival of the fittest," but few people are aware of the concept of "survival of the fitness" -- which has much greater long term impacts and implications --...
View ArticleThe Noncomformist
The objective of mass societies and mass media, is to get everybody thinking and doing the same thing -- as ends in themselves, whether those activities and values are productive and effective or not....
View ArticleBetter or Worse?
Better or worse?That is always the question.In everything one does, the measure of what one is doing, and how well they are doing, is whether they are better or worse for their efforts. If they...
View ArticleWhat Is A Blog?
Succinctly, it is the official publication of whoever publishes it. That is a matter of record -- of their thoughts, and how they think. As such, there are no "shoulds" as to how it should be, or...
View ArticleWe All Must Become Bodybuilders
The distinguishing characteristic of aging and deterioration, is muscular atrophy or shrinkage -- obviously visible as sagging and wrinkled skin -- for which there is no dynamic, underlying support --...
View ArticleYour Health Is YOUR Job
Because of the excessive specialization and fragmentation of jobs and roles in societies even of the recent past, many people don't think they have a job and/or responsibility unless they have the...
View ArticleThe Problem of Hawaii
One of the massive failures of Hawaiian society and culture, is always "hiring down" -- and only recruiting people who are less competent than they are, so they can never be a threat to take "their...
View ArticleDecline and Vitality in People
When I've had contact with people with cognitive dysfunctions, I've always noted that an obvious physical accompaniment, was the lack of movement at the head, as well as the hands and feet -- and when...
View ArticleThe Worst Preparation (Education) in the World
We educate ourselves to prepare ourselves to live successfully (effectively) in the world of challenges we expect to face -- rather than in the denial that we ever have to face that world, and deal...
View ArticleSurvival of the Fitness
The recent passing of "fitness" luminaries Joe Weider and Sergio Oliva, brings home to all involved during the heyday of their years since the 1960s, that we all succumb to time -- even though there'll...
View ArticleStanding the Test of Time
"Old age" is the time when all the problems one has not solved in life, comes home to haunt them.Increasingly, it becomes apparent that the problems of "aging," are much more the problems of life, than...
View ArticleTime Is On Your Side
One of the biggest difference makers, is whether one believes time is on one's side or against them: If the game is long enough, one could still conceivably, improve and win -- no matter what the score...
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